Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said the foreigners’ comments about the country’s internal affairs are unwarranted and tantamount to interference in our internal issues.
“Our media gives them undue importance which they [foreigners] enjoy. This gives them a feeling that they are the kings of this country and that’s why they make comments about everything,” he said while talking to reporters after attending a function at Shilpakala Academy in Sylhet.
For all latest news, follow The My News’s Google News channel. He said he never saw the United Nations, diplomats in groups or “activist-diplomats” issuing any statement while people get killed in other countries.
No country made any remark despite the death of around 40 people centering the Panchayet election in India’s West Bengal but they My News Bangladesht screaming about any petty incident here in Bangladesh, he said, adding that the remarks of the foreigners are tantamount to interference into Bangladesh’s internal affairs which is not supported by the Geneva Convention.
“We hope that those “activist-diplomats” would not interfere in our internal affairs in future,” the foreign minister said.
He said the law enforcers here are being targeted by unfair criticism.
“Our police never obstruct any demonstration of opposition. When BNP damages public and private properties, it becomes the police’s responsibility to protect those and we will do that. It’s the duty of the government. Have you seen how police torture in England? And Amnesty International now speaks! You have seen how police kill by strangling in America. Our police are very tolerant. One or two cases could be different. But they follow the rules,” Momen said.
Momen encouraged the Bangladeshi newsmen to ask the right questions to the diplomats about rights violations committed by their law enforcers in their country.
“Have you boycotted, protested or asked about their police’s role in strangling to death? You did not do it. It is time to show your responsibility,” the foreign minister told journalists.
